Poll: Are you left-handed or right-handed?

[Barbas]

okay, first having low hand dominance is not ambidextrous, If you can do anything with the same skill with both hands that is ambidextrous.

This.

I find so many people I come across (it's weird how often this comes up in conversation) who claim to be "ambidextrous" cannot, in fact, write with the hand they don't normally write with.

I don't know if it's just a misunderstanding on their part, or people think that they'll come across as being more of a unique little snowflake if they claim they're equally good with both hands.(...)

*Shakes head* I feel you're over-thinking things. Think of it like a lordship: you can impress women with it in a bar!

OT: Same as above, the right hand is dominant. I can do little besides picking up things with my left and even then, it's like watching .

 

[Sleepy Sol]

I'm left-handed in writing and most things I use my hands for.

The biggest exception I can think of in relation to that is holding a guitar. After that comes that I use my right hand with my mouse. Other than that I can't really think of any more.

 

[chadachada123]

I'm left-handed in writing and most things I use my hands for.

The biggest exception I can think of in relation to that is holding a guitar. After that comes that I my right hand with my mouse. Other than that I can't really think of any more.

Same here, and the guitar part just came from always playing Guitar Hero righty for several years because it feels awkward having it upside down.

For computer mice, same thing. Just grew up righty and couldn't even think of using my left hand for the mouse. Since typing uses the left hand the most, figured it'd be better to always have my fingers on it.

Otherwise, nah, everything I can think of is lefty, other than holding a mug with the handle on the right, but physically holding it with my left, handleless.

 

[Ten Foot Bunny]

You are correct. With the current population, roughly 7% are left-handed men and the other 3% are left-handed women. Currently, there is no known explanation, scientific or otherwise, for the reason for this numerical gap between the sexes as it concerns dominance in hands. Also, if both parents are left-handed, 50% of their children will be left-handed, too. However, if they're both right-handed, that percentage drops to 2%.

I'm one of those 2% and one of the 3%. Despite both of my parents being right-handed, I turned out extremely lefty (and proud of it!). I write, kick, throw, bat, use scissors, etc., etc. with my left hand. The only thing I do right-handed is playing guitar, and that's not an exaggeration - it's literally the ONLY thing.

The only place where I'm right-dominant is in my eyes. I've read that people's dominant eye is sometimes determined by which eye has worse vision. In my case, my right eye's prescription is stronger and needs more astigmatism correction than my left.

 

[RealRT]

I write with the southpaw, but I do a lot of stuff with my right one, has been taught to. Still, when I do stuff for the first time I sometimes end up doing it with the lefty, like the first time I held a BB gun, it was with my left.

 

[cathou]

i'm left handed. however i use scissors with my right hand, and i even if i have the natural instinct of using my left hand for using my mouse, i'm not right handed for my mouse, because in high school our mouses cords were attached to the desks on the right of the keyboard.

and i really suck at baseball, because i use my left hand for both catching and pitching, even if my coach back in the days were i was playing little league baseball, tried really hard to teach me how to pitch or catch with the right hand. so i was catching the ball, removing my glove, and pitching the ball each time.

 

[Clearwaters]

Right Handed

This thread is bringing back horrible memories of all the awkward elbow touching that happened between me and the left handed kid that I sat next to in science class.

 

[FPLOON]

I'm most definitely a right-handed kind of guy except when it comes to playing the drums (which I "suck" at, but that's beside the point) or when I masturbate... The reason I mention that last part is because when I told someone that, they then started questioning why I didn't masturbate with my more dominant hand...

 

[Trude]

Taught myself to write competently using the right and left hand, yet I still cannot grasp other left-handed concepts. Most arduous of them is my recent foray into left handed rocket jumping.

 

[Imperioratorex Caprae]

Both, but my left is dominant at some tasks while the right is dominant for writing and guitar picking and a few other tasks. I can write with both and not semi-legible but fully capable with either hand I just prefer my right because of the style of left-to-right penmanship. I am left-eye dominant which means my left hand is more accurate aim-wise. I am an odd person.

 

[Colour Scientist]

Left handed here, I write with my left and it's definitely dominant but I use my right hand for a lot of things.

I'm not ambidextrous at all, I've just become accustomed to using right-handed tools.

Other than the number of people lying about being ambidextrous

Yeah, it's like when IQ polls come up and everyone has an IQ of over 9000.

 

[pearcinator]

Very few people are entirely 'left' or 'right' in everything they do.

For example, I am left handed but kick right-footed and would play a guitar (if I could) right-handed. I am goofy footed when it comes to surfing/skating/snowboarding etc. I write and hold things with my left hand most of the time.

I am surprised by the % of lefties here though. I heard it was about 10-12% of the population but we have 30% here. Goes to show, us lefties are superior, soon all the righties will be extinct mwahahaha!

 

[The Sanctifier]

I write left-handed but operate a mouse with my right hand. I use scissors with my right hand as well. For the most part I'd say that I'm dominantly left.

 

[Sean Hollyman]

I write with my left hand, but I do most other things with my right hand. It's weird.

 

[Vicarious Reality]

Righty
I just wrote ''Whoo i wrote this with my left hand'' on a paper to test, needless to explain, i can barely read it
Though i noticed that most people seem to use their left hand to shoot bows with... find that strange and confusing, i grew up using my right to hold the bow
I also recall that i often hold my bike with only my left hand

 

[Ten Foot Bunny]

Though i noticed that most people seem to use their left hand to shoot bows with... find that strange and confusing, i grew up using my right to hold the bow

Actually, what you're describing is a left-handed bow. Bows are classified by the hand you use to draw, therefore, a bow held in the left hand and drawn with the right is right-handed, one held in the right hand and drawn with the left is left-handed.

So congratulations! You're officially a goofy archer.

 

[Parasitic_Chick]

I'm left handed and proud of it. LEFTIE PRIDE!!!

 

[Remus]

I was born left-handed but later became right-handed. not even kidding. Long story.

 

[Vault101]

right handed....I think my left hand might actually be retarded...

So congratulations! You're officially a goofy archer.

is that a propper term amongst the archery comunity?

 

[SirDerpy]

Right handed to write with, play tennis with, mouse with, etc. etc. The only two things off the top of my head that my left hand is better at is archery and piano. My left hand has much better accuracy on both counts, and is much stronger with dynamics control on piano. Right hand is just a weakling.